I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

I don't give a damn about Hollywood.

There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.

If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I started acting without any vocation. I continued out of love.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago, " she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!

The problem with a lot of people is that they procrastinate as if tomorrow doesn't have some tasks of its own.

Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.